In the life cycle of any kernel branch, patch releases, those minor “.x” updates, play a vital role in refining performance, patching regressions, and ironing out rough edges. Kernel 6.15.4 is one ...

The stable release of Linux Kernel 6.18 was officially tagged on November 30, 2025. It’s expected to become this year’s major long-term support (LTS) kernel, something many users and distributions ...

Richmond, Virginia: At the Linux Plumbers Conference, the invite-only meeting for the top Linux kernel developers, ByteDance Linux Kernel Engineer Cong Wang, proposed that we use artificial ...

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s networking stack gives any user with local shell access a reliable path to full root privileges, and patches from upstream maintainers have yet to appear in the ...

There are many open source programs (aka code that’s accessible to the public) out there for both Linux and Windows. For programs and tools where that’s not the case, WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) ...

On June 22, 2026, Intel's USB4STREAM protocol — a new mechanism for sending raw data directly between two machines over a USB4 or Thunderbolt cable — was merged into the official Linux 7.2 kernel tree ...